| Description | Letter to Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone from J. Smiles, 4, Pembroke Gardens, Kensington, West London, saying that he called at Bailey's Hotel when he received Macdonald's letter but Mr. Nasmyth had already left, driven out of London by the 'horrible fogs', Nasmyth is hoping to go to Aberdeen in June and will sit to George Reid then, visit to Watts who is still to paint something for Macdonald, he has done a splendid bronze of one of the ancestors of the Duke of Westminster, and it is to stand in Eaton House in Derbyshire, hoping Macdonald will come to London in June, news of Mrs. Macdonald's health from 'the buxom lady we met in your house', 10 February 1880 |